[AK-VHF] 80m Folded Dipole Up

[Brandon Clark]

80 m is a hard band to get set up on. You'll have to let me know how that antenna works out. I haven't ever tried the ladder line feed aporoach. It's a great way to go, electrically.

I've operated a little on 80 with an off-center fed dipole (about 130' long I think). I didn't find that antenna to be particularly noteworthy. I did find that its performance on higher bands was remarkably worse than the fan dipole I have on the house now.

Also did some research and sketching for various portable 80 M antennas, with a mind to POTA usage. Given the space constraints I had in mind I coukdn't come up with a good design. Trying to fit a 40 M antenna into a five yard camping spot results in a lot of compromises.

Brandon Clark, KL7BSC
https://brandonclarklabs.com/

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On Oct 18, 2023, 22:33, Ed Cole wrote:

> I got the 80m folded dipole hung on my tower at 36-feet, today. Using 450-ohm latter line and a 33-foot feed line to a DX Engineering 4:1 Balun. Ends are about 16-foot above ground. I cut it long and tunes at 3.45 MHz for 1:1 SWR, but my Elecraft 100w amp/auto-tuner tunes it with ease. I will trim it for 3.8 MHz. Next summer I will add wires for 40m. be nice to operate on 80m nets, again. 73, Ed - KL7UW During the winter I will build my 1200w WW6PQL HF/6m amp. ______________________________________________________________ ak-vhf mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ak-vhf Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html